TYZZER'S DISEASE IN MUSKRATS: OCCURRENCE IN FREE-LIVING ANIMALS

1 July 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Wildlife Disease Association in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Vol. 14 (3) , 325-328
https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-14.3.325

Abstract

Tyzzer''s disease was diagnosed in 4 muskrats (Ondatra zibethica) found dead over a 2 mo. period in a single feed-house in a Saskatchewan [Canada] marsh. No dead animals were found elsewhere in the marsh, although several hundred apparently healthy animals were trapped during this period. Similarities in the pathology and epizootiology of Tyzzer''s and Errington''s diseases of muskrats support an hypothesis that these diseases are a single entity.

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